Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011)

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Highly Overrated But Still Good

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I never came across a DVD called Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes. But I do came across Paranormal Entity 3. And let that be the same flick. Pure commercially chosen that title but be advised. It had nothing to do with paranormal entities. It is in fact a pure possession flick. It was based on the story of Anneliese Michel.Anneliese Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism. The case has been labelled as a misidentification of mental illness, negligence, abuse, and religious hysteria. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. Soon, she began hallucinating while praying. In 1973, she suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was "damned" and would "rot in hell". On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 68 pounds (30.91 kilograms). Three motion pictures, The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Requiem (2006), and the Asylum film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, are loosely based on Michel's story.Horror buffs will have noticed one word, The Asylum. Again, Asylum films tried to pick in on the success of a blockbuster. sadly they failed. The flick has nothing to offer. The first second I laughed out loud already by seeing a so-called German. What a cliché that was. Not only that, they tried to let English actors to speak English with a German accent. It sounded like inspector Clouseau...Further we have a lot of priests just talking and stating in front of the camera about Anneliese. Anneliese herself didn't look possessed. She looked like a girl waking up with her eye make-up still on. Nobody really was convincing. What was interesting was the use of real audio footage of Anneliese but sadly they edited it 3 times into the flick. A very annoying turkey, maybe if you watch it p*ssed and proud you do will have a laugh. The only thing that it had in common with the paranormal entity franchise was the nudity (boobs) in it. And they do distract you from the story. Maybe her juggs were possessed?Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 2/5

Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011) 1/2 (out of 4) The Asylum's attempt to cash in on countless "exorcism" films including THE LAST EXORCISM, which this is a mockbuster of. Not only that but the studio tries to claim that the true case of Anneliese Michel, a German girl who was believed to have been possessed by the devil, is featured in this "found footage" horror movie. In the film we see Anneliese (Nikki Muller) as she goes through various physical and psychological situations and the locals priests feels she's possessed while the doctors from the hospital thinks she's just mentally troubled. The footage will let the truth be known. ANNELIESE: THE EXORCIST TAPES is an extremely bad movie that lacks any real imagination and in the end its 90-minutes just go by so slowly that you'll wish you were the one possessed by the devil. I think a lot of the blame has to go towards the actual story, which simply gives us nothing new or interesting. We never really get to know any of the characters. We never care about any of the characters and there's not a single second where any of them don't come off more annoying than anything else. It also doesn't help that the director filmed everything so bland that there's just never anything that pulls you into the film. The lack of any real suspense or drama is just the death nail. Even worse is that there's not a single frame where you feel as if you're watching some sort of found footage as it's clear what we're seeing isn't real for one but it's clearly also not shot in 1976, which is the date it takes place. There are two things that kept me from giving this a BOMB rating and one is the performance as Muller. I thought she actually did a pretty good job in the part but it's just a shame her talents were in such a worthless movie. The second thing that "worked" is that the film thankfully got so bad to where I got a couple big laughs. One came from the horrendous German accents and the other came from a scene where the possessed girl tries to sexually assault one of the priests.

Complete rubbish, more acting than real events, one for the rubbish bin I think. Why film studios persist in spewing out these lame movies is beyond me, but they do have an audience, but if your tricked into thinking this is for real, then look away, it's nothing more than a poorly constructed fiasco. The last few years have seen an influx of rubbish like this, telling the viewer that what you are about to see is real........surely movie-goers are not so easily lead these days ? Well maybe they are, because this is available on a shop shelf near you, but do yourself a favour and keep walking, if you don't you will wish you had !!!

Another bad choice by me! I chose this one from the video store and hoped to see a good "exorcism" movie.The blurb said it has real footage and that it wasn't doctored. Well within 3 milliseconds anyone could tell this was scripted and acted. And badly! I turned this off after 20 minutes and I so very rarely do that. Enough said.Seems that after all of the recent exorcism movies that someone thought it'd be a good idea to put out another. They were wrong.So, anyone who is thinking of hiring this stinker I can save them the time and let them know ....don't!